This Week in Elasticsearch - October 15, 2014

Welcome to This Week in Elasticsearch. In this roundup, we try to inform you about the latest and greatest changes in Elasticsearch. We cover what happened in the GitHub repositories, as well as many Elasticsearch events happening worldwide, and give you a small peek into the future of the project.

Elasticsearch Core

Scripting: Created a parameter parse to standardised script options (#7977, master and 1.5)

Thanks to Aaron Mildenstein, we're kicking off a series of articles on the best ways to make Logstash work for you. Check out the first post in our series, on using grok and mutate to re-type numeric values incoming from Elasticsearch.

Where to Find Us

We'd love to feature all the great Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana presentations and meetups happening worldwide in this section. If you're speaking or hosting a meetup, let our Director of Developer Relations, Leslie Hawthorn, know!

Belgium

We're a proud sponsor of the 5th anniversary of DevOps Days Belgium, held in its original hometown of Ghent. Elasticsearch will have a booth at the conference, so stop by and say hello to Leslie Hawthorn and Alan Hardy between sessions. We'll be at DevOps Days October 27-28th.

Canada

Colin Surprenant will regale all with tales of the ELK stack at the next Montreal Elasticsearch Meetup. You can join Colin this Thursday, Oct. 16th at 6:30 PM. Register now to save your spot.

China

Zeng Yong, aka Medcl, is one of our most active community members in China. He has an upcoming talk on all things Elasticsearch: Real-time data analysis at QCon Shanghai on October 17, 2014.

The 10th Elasticsearch Paris Meetup is on for November 13th. RSVPs won't open until two weeks before the meetup, so stay tuned to this space so you can get registered.

Germany

If you happen to be in Karlsruhe on October 16th, you can catch Patrick Peschlow on Elasticsearch Performance in a Nutshell at the Search Meetup Karlsruhe. Registration is now open, and the meetup will begin at 7:15 PM.

For folks in Berlin, we'll have a booth at the GOTO Berlin conference, plus two awesome talks from Elasticsearchers:

Italy

Then on October 30th, we'll be working with Zimbra & Friends - the official Zimbra event in Italy (organized by Seacom) - to help show the ELK stack as a Zimbra log analyzer. And who knows, there may even be a meet up happening as well...stay tuned for more.

Poland

Honza Kral will be speaking at PyCon Poland 2014. The conference runs from October 16-19th in Orle Gniazdo. Honza's keynote address takes place on Thursday night at 7 PM, and he's speaking on Polyglot Persistence.

Honza will speak at PolyConf 2014 on Elasticsearch's language clients, Bridging the gap: one API, 5 languages. Honza takes the stage at 5:30 PM on October 30th, and the conference runs the 30th-31st in Poznan.

Sweden

Switzerland

David Pilato will return to Soft-Shake in Geneva once again this year. He will speak on Advanced Search for Your Legacy Application in the Big Data Track. Soft-Shake takes place on October 23-24th, and David will speak in Slot 5 on Thursday.

United Kingdom

On Tuesday, October 21st, Skills Matter eXchange London will host an evening workshop on Real-world use cases for Elasticsearch and Lucene. Attendance is free of charge, but registration is required.

United States

New meetup: The Grand Rapids PHP Developers user group will get together on October 21st, and they'll be talking Logstash and Kibana. Register now to save your place.

New meetup: The Elasticsearch LAX meetup group will convene on Oct. 29th to talk Multilingual text search + Elasticsearch from the bottom up. Register now to save your place.

New meetup: The next Elasticsearch San Francisco meetup is on for October 30th. Register now to save your place.

We'll be in the exhibits hall at Strata and Hadoop World NYC on October 13-15th. But don't just pop by our booth (P1) - we've also scheduled a special Strata NYC Meetup on Oct. 15th at Twitter's New York offices. Amongst other great talks on offer, you can hear from Costin Leau, lead developer for Elasticsearch for Apache Hadoop. He'll tell you all about our new support for SparkSQL and Apache Storm. Get registered for the meetup now, because this one always fills lightning-fast. (And many thanks to the fine folks at Twitter for hosting us.)

The Elasticsearch Minneapolis Meetup will host their second meeting on Oct. 22nd. Sign up now to learn all about how TrackJS & Infinite Campus use Elasticsearch. Register now to save your place - turns out our CTO, Shay Banon, will make a special guest appearance for open Q&A on all things Elasticsearch!

The Elasticsearch Phoenix Meetup has just kicked off, and we have a special treat for the first meeting: Meet the Kibana team! You can register now to save your place; the meetup will take place on October 22nd.

The Elasticsearch Seattle Meetup group will be hosting their inaugural meeting on October 23rd. First up: Kibana - deployment, configuration, use and extending. You can register now to save your place.

Kurt Hurtado will speak at the San Francisco Cloud Mafia meetup on November 5th, where he'll talk the ELK stack in a DevOps environment. This meetup is incredibly popular, so get registered now if you'd like to attend.

Where to Find You

Our Director of Developer Relations, Leslie Hawthorn, is hard at work to help folks create more Elasticsearch meetup groups and to help meetup organizers find more speakers. If you are interested in either effort, let her know.

Oh yeah, we're also hiring. If you'd like us to find you for employment purposes, just drop us a note. We care more about your skill set and passion for Elasticsearch, Kibana, and Logstash than where you rest your head.

Trainings

If you are interested in Elasticsearch training we have courses taught by our core developers coming up in: